UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2014/15 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS St. Jakob-Park - Basel Wednesday 18 February 2015 20.45CET (20.45 local time) FC Basel 1893 Round of 16, First leg FC Porto Last updated 21/09/2021 18:41CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Squad list 6 Head coach 9 Match officials 10 Fixtures and results 12 Match-by-match lineups 16 Competition facts 19 Team facts 21 Legend 23 1 FC Basel 1893 - FC Porto Wednesday 18 February 2015 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit St. Jakob-Park, Basel Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams FC Basel 1893 - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Basel 1893 - Sporting Clube Schär 23, Stocker 66, 22/11/2012 GS 3-0 Basel de Portugal D. Degen 71 Sporting Clube de Portugal - FC 20/09/2012 GS 0-0 Lisbon Basel 1893 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 02/11/2011 GS SL Benfica - FC Basel 1893 1-1 Lisbon Rodrigo 4; Huggel 64 Bruno César 20, 18/10/2011 GS FC Basel 1893 - SL Benfica 0-2 Basel Óscar Cardozo 75 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Basel 1893 - Sporting Clube 09/12/2008 GS 0-1 Basel Yannick Djaló 19 de Portugal Sporting Clube de Portugal - FC Zanni 55 (og), Derlei 01/10/2008 GS 2-0 Lisbon Basel 1893 86 2-1 Stocker 11, Derdiyok 27/08/2008 QR3 FC Basel 1893 - Vitória SC Basel agg: 2-1 54; Fajardo 15 (P) 13/08/2008 QR3 Vitória SC - FC Basel 1893 0-0 Guimaraes UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Basel 1893 - Sporting Clube 0-3 Pereirinha 2, Liedson 21/02/2008 R3 Basel de Portugal agg: 0-5 41, 51 Sporting Clube de Portugal - FC 13/02/2008 R3 2-0 Lisbon Vukčević 8, 58 Basel 1893 FC Porto - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Petrić 78, Chapuisat Grasshopper Club Zürich - FC 2-3 22/08/2001 QR3 Zurich 87; Clayton 14, Porto agg: 4-5 Capucho 43, Deco 80 Paredes 6, Hélder FC Porto - Grasshopper Club 08/08/2001 QR3 2-2 Porto Postiga 59; Nuñez 50, Zürich Petrić 57 2 FC Basel 1893 - FC Porto Wednesday 18 February 2015 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit St. Jakob-Park, Basel UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Jorge Costa 50, 4-0 Kostadinov 64, 04/11/1992 R2 FC Porto - FC Sion Porto agg: 6-2 Domingos 85, Magalhães 86 Orlando 54, Assis 59; 21/10/1992 R2 FC Sion - FC Porto 2-2 Sion Semedo 78, Couto 81 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Grasshopper Club Zürich - FC 3-0 Sulser 26, Wehrli 66, 05/11/1980 R2 Zurich Porto agg 3-2 (aet) Pfister 118 ET FC Porto - Grasshopper Club 22/10/1980 R2 2-0 Porto Texeira 36, Sousa 54 Zürich Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Basel 1893 5 2 0 3 5 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 10 2 3 5 6 12 FC Porto 3 2 1 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 6 3 2 1 13 9 3 FC Basel 1893 - FC Porto Wednesday 18 February 2015 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit St. Jakob-Park, Basel Match background Paulo Sousa welcomes familiar opposition to St. Jakob-Park in the shape of FC Porto as his FC Basel 1983 team chase a first qualification in the UEFA Champions League knockout rounds. • The Portuguese coach knows Basel have to improve on their record against clubs from his home country, having scored in only three of ten fixtures against Liga sides. Match background Basel • Basel's last encounter with Portuguese opposition brought them their biggest win to date – a 3-0 defeat of Sporting Clube de Portugal in the 2012/13 UEFA Europa League group stage, Fabian Schär opening the scoring. • They were the first goals Basel had scored against Sporting in the sixth match between the teams, Schär's strike coming after 473 blank minutes. • Previously Basel had beaten just one Liga side, a 2-1 home victory over Vitória SC in the third qualifying round of the 2008/09 UEFA Champions League. Basel's record at home is W2 D0 L3; overall it is W2 D3 L5. • The Rot-Blauen finished second in Group B, 11 points behind Real Madrid CF who were 1-0 winners in Switzerland on matchday five, Basel's last home game. The other fixtures at St. Jakob-Park ended in victories against Liverpool FC (1-0) and PFC Ludogorets Razgrad (4-0). • The Madrid reverse was only Basel's second in their 11 European home matches since the start of last season, seven of which were won. • The Swiss title holders are in the last 16 of the modern UEFA Champions League for just the third time and will want to forget their most recent experience, in 2011/12, when they crashed 7-0 at FC Bayern München, having edged the home leg 1-0. They have reached the European Cup quarter-finals only once, in 1973/74, when they overcame Celtic FC 3-2 at home but lost 4-2 away. Porto • Porto have been beaten just once in six fixtures with Swiss teams, going down 3-0 at Grasshopper Club Zürich in their 1980/81 UEFA Cup second round second leg for a 3-2 aggregate defeat. They have won three of the other five games. • Julen Lopetegui's men came top of Group H, five points clear of FC Shakhtar Donetsk. On their travels they drew 2- 2 at Shakhtar on matchday two and then won at Athletic Club (2-0) and FC BATE Borisov (3-0). • Porto were unbeaten in the group with four victories and two draws and have lost only one of their last 14 European fixtures home and away, a 4-1 thrashing by Sevilla FC in the second leg of last season's UEFA Europa League quarter-final. They went out 4-2 on aggregate. • In their 19th UEFA Champions League campaign, Porto are contesting their seventh round of 16 tie since lifting the trophy in 2004. They have lost five of those six ties, making it through to the quarter-finals just once, in 2008/09, when they were eliminated 3-2 on aggregate by Manchester United FC after accounting for Club Atlético de Madrid on away goals. Coach and player links • During his playing days, Sousa faced Porto 12 times while at SL Benfica (seven matches), Sporting (four) and Panathinaikos FC (one), registering two wins, four draws and six defeats. The only UEFA Champions League game was a 0-0 draw in the 2001/02 second group stage with Panathinaikos. • Ricardo Quaresma and Walter Samuel were team-mates at FC Internazionale Milano between 2008 and 2010. • Samuel met Porto twice with Inter in the 2005/06 UEFA Champions League group stage, prevailing 2-1 at home after losing 2-0 in Portugal. • Quaresma was a colleague of Matías Delgado at Beşiktaş JK in 2010/11. • Jackson Martínez netted twice in Colombia's 4-1 win over Yoichiro Kakitani's Japan in the 2014 FIFA World Cup group stage in Cuiaba. Juan Quintero also featured for the South Americans. • Derlis González had a brief spell with Benfica's youth team in 2012/13. Match facts Basel • Fabian Schär serves a one-match ban; González, Marek Suchý and Taulant Xhaka are a booking away from a suspension. 4 FC Basel 1893 - FC Porto Wednesday 18 February 2015 - 20.45CET (20.45 local time) Match press kit St. Jakob-Park, Basel • Shkelzen Gashi, top scorer in Switzerland last season for Grasshopper Club Zürich, extended his Super League- leading tally to 13 with Basel's equaliser against FC Sion on Saturday. The hosts were down to ten men following Tomáš Vaclík's dismissal just before half-time. • Basel won 4-2 at Grasshoppers on 8 February, their first competitive fixture since matchday six. • The Swiss champions are nine league games unbeaten, winning seven. • Basel won five of their seven friendlies during a winter break in which they spent time in Marbella, Spain. Results: FC Hégenheim (W9-0), Karlsruher SC (2-2), Fortuna Düsseldorf (W2-1), FC Dynamo Kyiv (W3-2), SC Freiburg (W2-0), FC Schaffhausen (W2-1), TSV Eintracht Braunschweig (L2-0). • January signing Adama Traoré is sidelined with a thigh injury sustained in Marbella. • Ivan Ivanov, out since January 2014 because of a knee injury, is Basel's only long-term absentee. UEFA Champions League squad changes • In: Adama Traoré (Vitória SC) • Out: Naser Aliji (FC Vaduz, loan), Marcelo Díaz (Hamburger SV), Michael Goncalves (FC Wil, loan), Geoffroy Serey Die (VfB Stuttgart), Giovanni Sio (SC Bastia, loan) Porto • Iván Marcano and Maicon are both a booking away from a suspension. • Hernâni made his Porto debut in Friday's 1-0 victory at home to Vitória SC, the team he joined from in January. • Porto have played 13 games in all competitions since matchday six, their record reading: W10 D1 L2. • Both of those defeats were in the Liga, their first in the league since May – 2-0 at home to SL Benfica (14 December) and 1-0 at CS Marítimo (25 January).